searx

A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine.

List of running instances.

See the wiki for more information.

Features

Tracking free
Supports multiple output formats
- json curl https://searx.me/?format=json&q=[query]
- csv curl https://searx.me/?format=csv&q=[query]
- opensearch/rss curl https://searx.me/?format=rss&q=[query]
Opensearch support (you can set as default search engine)
Configurable search engines/categories
Different search languages
Duckduckgo like !bang functionality with engine shortcuts
Parallel queries - relatively fast

Installation

clone source: git clone git@github.com:asciimoo/searx.git && cd searx
install dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt
edit your settings.yml (set your secret_key!)
run python searx/webapp.py to start the application

For all the details, follow this step by step installation

Alternative (Recommended) Installation

clone source: git clone git@github.com:asciimoo/searx.git && cd searx
build in current folder: make minimal
run bin/searx-run to start the application

Development

Just run make. Versions of dependencies are pinned down inside versions.cfg to produce most stable build. Also remember, NO make command should be run as root, not even make production

Deployment

clone source: git clone git@github.com:asciimoo/searx.git && cd searx
build in current folder: make production
run bin/supervisord to start the application

Upgrading

inside previously cloned searx directory run: git stash to temporarily save any changes you have made
pull source: git pull origin master
re-build in current folder: make production
run bin/supervisorctl stop searx to stop searx, if it does not, then run fuser -k 8888/tcp
run bin/supervisorctl reload to re-read supervisor config and start searx

Command make

`make`

Builds development environment with testing support.

`make tests`

Runs tests. You can write tests here and remember 'untested code is broken code'.

`make robot`

Runs robot (Selenium) tests, you must have firefox installed because this functional tests actually run the browser and perform operations on it. Also searx is executed with settings_robot.

`make flake8`

'pep8 is a tool to check your Python code against some of the style conventions in PEP 8.'

`make coverage`

Checks coverage of tests, after running this, execute this: firefox ./coverage/index.html

`make production`

Used to make co-called production environment - without tests (you should ran tests before deploying searx on the server). This installs supervisord, so if searx crashes, it will try to pick itself up again. And crontab entry is added to start supervisord at server boot.

`make minimal`

Minimal build - without test frameworks, the quickest build option.

`make clean`

Deletes several folders and files (see Makefile for more), so that next time you run any other make command it will rebuild everithing.

TODO

Moar engines
Better ui
Browser integration
Documentation
Tests

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